As Archidamos and Peloponnesians ravage the countryside around Attica, they pass through the site of Eleusis and the Thriasion Plain, the home of a major cult to Demeter and Persephone. Read about the goddess and her daughter, as the story is told by a Greek mythographer of the 1st or 2nd century:

Greek text of the Story of Demeter and PersephoneNotes to elucidate the story